FLYING ON FILM: A CENTURY OF AVIATION IN THE MOVIES, 1912-2012 (SECOND EDITION) by Mark Carlson

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Newly revised
and updated 2nd Edition.

Airplanes and
motion pictures were born within a year of one another. After the first
century, they both rose from uncertain infancy through growing adolescence to
robust maturity. While Hollywood’s actors and directors learned the art of
making movies, the aircraft industry and pilots learned how to conquer the sky.
In peace and war, prosperity and depression, airplanes and motion pictures have
become a part of American culture; the relationship was symbiotic. While
airplane movies helped sell box office tickets, the movies helped promote
aviation.

In Flying
on Film, movie fans and aviation buffs can find their common bond. From
wooden biplanes to armadas of warplanes, from majestic China Clippers to huge
747s, from slow monoplanes to swift jets, the movies told the story of the
airplane. William A. Wellman’s Academy Award-winning masterpiece, Wings
(1927), starring Clara Bow and Buddy Rogers, was the first of the breed, the
standard to be emulated.

Flying on
Film is the history
behind the films. Veterans and aviators from past and present tell the real
story of one of the most fascinating genres of motion pictures in Hollywood.

About the
Author: Mark Carlson is an aviation historian, writer, classic film buff, and
student of filmmaking. He has written articles for several national aviation
magazines and organizations. As a docent and researcher at the San Diego
Air & Space Museum and member of many aviation-related organizations,
Carlson has gained an insight into the people who lived the world of airplanes
and the movies. He and his wife live in San Diego.